Argaw Ashine

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Last week, we learned
that Ethiopian journalist Argaw Ashine was facing possible arrest and needed to
flee the country. During a 10-day period in September, he had been summoned
three times by Ethiopian authorities and questioned about a reference to him in
a cable sent by the U.S. Embassy in October 2009 and made public by WikiLeaks last month.

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New York, September 14, 2011--U.S. diplomatic cables disclosed last month by WikiLeaks cited an
Ethiopian journalist by name and referred to his unnamed government source,
forcing the journalist to flee the country after police interrogated him over
the source's identity, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. It is
the first instance CPJ has confirmed in which a citation in one of the cables
has caused direct repercussions for a journalist.